Preferences for single-sex schools: Evidence from the housing market

Daniel Melser, Morteza Moallemi and Jun Sung Kim

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, vol. 189, issue C, 710-726

Abstract: We explore preferences for single-sex secondary schools by examining whether house prices vary at the borders of single-sex and coeducational school zones. To do this we develop a novel clustered boundary discontinuity design. This improves over existing methods in providing better control for locational variation in housing prices. Using data for Sydney, Australia, we find a price premium of around 2% for homes in single-sex school zones relative to comparable homes across the border in coeducational school zones. This price premium is robust across a range of models and cluster sizes.

Keywords: Single-sex schooling; Boundary discontinuity; Hedonic regression; Housing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 R21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2021.07.018

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